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Accelerate Legacy App Innovation with Less Risk with Azure Kubernetes Services

Published on Nov 15, 2023 | Share it via:

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With AKS you don’t have to choose between a costly rebuild of your entire legacy app and a “lift and shift” approach that isn’t future-proof. Containerize components of your app and move the highest-value, lowest-risk components first. AKS simplifies operations and gives you access to improved security, lower costs, and the innovative potential of the cloud.

The biggest roadblock to cloud migration often lies in your legacy applications. These apps typically have a traditional monolithic architecture, characterized by tightly coupled services that are complex and difficult to update. When attempting to make changes to a single service, the entire application can be affected, leading to extended timelines and increased resource demands.

A microservices approach, paired with the orchestration capabilities of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), enables you to evolve your applications gradually. This strategy allows organizations to adapt to changing business needs while minimizing risks associated with large-scale transformations. By leveraging a microservices architecture alongside AKS, organizations can not only enhance their operational efficiency but also seize new business opportunities with confidence, all while minimizing the risks typically associated with large-scale application migrations.

This eBook covers:

  • Define a cloud strategy for your legacy apps: Reduce costs, scale to meet fluctuating traffic demands, and boost performance—these are key drivers of the cloud computing revolution. Many organizations are experiencing significant advantages by offloading the operational tasks of managing data centers to cloud service providers. This shift leads to decreased capital expenses and allows IT teams to dedicate more time to priority business initiatives.
  • Modernize your apps incrementally: Modern software development methods, such as microservices architecture, allow organizations to deliver value to customers more rapidly by breaking large applications into smaller, decoupled components. While you may already be using this approach for new applications, it can also facilitate the migration of legacy applications to the cloud in a controlled and efficient manner.
  • Maximize your infrastructure investment: Containers not only streamline the work for engineers but can also significantly reduce your infrastructure costs. Traditionally, a single server could run only one operating system (OS), leading to underutilized hardware as IT typically dedicated one mission-critical application per server. By adopting containers, organizations can enhance performance, reduce infrastructure spending, and achieve greater operational efficiency, making it a compelling choice for modern application development and deployment.
  • Scale as the business demands: Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration solution for deploying and managing containers, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enhances this with enterprise-grade security and a streamlined development-to-production experience. With AKS, you can effectively operationalize containers at scale. With AKS, you can harness the full potential of Kubernetes while simplifying container management, enhancing application performance, and improving resource utilization in your cloud environment.
  • Meet your cloud migration goals with less risk: The Kubernetes architecture consists of several key components: nodes, clusters, pods, and containers. By leveraging AKS, organizations can enjoy the robust features of Kubernetes while benefiting from the management and security enhancements provided by the Azure platform, allowing them to focus on developing and deploying applications efficiently.

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